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Hampreston maps
Historic maps of Hampreston and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Hampreston maps
Hampreston photos
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Hampreston area books
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Memories of Hampreston
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Dorset memories
Canford School
My mother was a cook at Canford School. I remember her Christmas parties being held in the great hall. It was/is such a magnificent house. Oh - happy memories.
My Strange Connection With Canford
I lived between Boscombe and Southbourne from 1954 until 1956 and I remember some family outings in our very first car - a black Ford Prefect saloon. Trips into the Dorset countryside were exciting for me and also for my father who had never taken a driving test because he had a licence before tests were introduced! Sometimes we went through Canford and my father told me it was a wonderful boarding school.
For this ten year old it sounded attractive as I had been brought up on a diet of story books about Billy Bunter at Greyfriars School and similar schoolboy yarns. I so wanted to go to Canford School. In the event my father promised me that if I failed the scholarship for Bournemouth School for Boys then he would send me to Canford. It was probably the worst thing he could have said as it was a positve inducement to fail my exam!
As luck would have it, fate intervened. I damaged both... Read more
My School
I go to Ferndown Middle School.
Visiting Ferndown
(Not just 1955, probably most of the 1950s.)
When my mother was a little girl, she was looked after by a nanny, who in her later years lived at Fairways, a bungalow at the end of Carroll Avenue. In the 1950s when I was very young, we used to visit what seemed a large bungalow in a very large garden full of pine trees and bracken, where my brother and I used to play while the adults gossiped. Years later, long after Nanny had moved away, probably 1967 or 68, when we went back to see what the place looked like, it was half demolished, and new houses were being built on the site. A sad day for us.
Ferndown Zoo
I don't remember the year but I think it was in the 1950s. Where exactly was the Ferndown Zoo? I have a photo of one of my cousins taken with a goat. I really don't remember much about it, I just know I went at least three times. Please help.
Wartime in Ferndown
I have so many memories of growing up in Ferndown during the Second World War, when it was just a village. Collecting pigswill and old papers to aid the war effort. Scouting adventures with scoutmaster Doug Gabe. Playing games on the common and collecting tadpoles and newts in jamjars. The bomb that fell in Victoria Road, and the night when incendiaries rained down - a neighbour beat "ours" out with the hydrangea he pulled up from the front garden! Carol singing. Being told off for throwing stones at the church bell. Ajax, the lion at Ferndown zoo that made national headlines because its roar was too loud. Those were the days. We lived at Delkeith in Dudsbury Avenue, niow the site of Delkeith Court. I left Ferndown in 1954 to do National Service, and didn't return for years, by which time it had exploded into a town that I hardly recognised. It was so different that I wrote a book about what it used to be like (Ferndown, the Back... Read more
Zoo
The zoo was in Ringwood Rd near the junction with Church Rd. It closed in 1955 after complaints about Ajax the lion. Now the site of homes in Longacre Drive.
